Ink bottle dispenser and stopper



Oct. 11, 1938.

Filed July 29, 1936 H ill/111mm,

I INVENTORJ 17265 iSckZzzcZem E. SCHLUETER' 2,132,518

Patented Oct. 11, 1938 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFlCE INK BOTTLE DISPENSERAND STOPPEB. Ernest Schlueter, Jamaica, N. Y.

Application July 29,

3 Claims.

The present invention relates to an improved stopper and dispenser forink bottles and is more especially adapted for use on ink bottlescontaining from two tofive ounces of writing fluid.

The main feature of advantage in the present structure is that it can beadapted to provide a closed seal for the bottle when so desired, and

may there often be'adapted to act as an automatic supply reservoir,thereby to provide ink as 1-1') required for pen dipping or fountain penfilling.

Other features of advantage will be apprehended as the hereindescription proceeds and it will be obvious that modifications may bemade in the structure herein without departing from the spirit hereof orthe scope of the appended claims.

In the drawing,

Fig. 1 is a view in elevation showing the ink bottle and device in inkreservoir supplying position;

Fig. 2 is a plan view of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is a view in elevation showing the bottle and devce in sealed,stoppered assembly;

Fig. 4 is a transverse section of the main body of the stoppering devicetaken on the line 4-4, Fig. 5, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 5 is a plan view of Fig. 4;

Fig. 6 is a sectional view of the valve or ink cut off means taken onthe line 66, Fig. 7, looking in the direction of the arrows;

Fig. 7 is a plan view of Fig. 6; and

Fig. 8 is a fragmentary sectional View of the valve device, enlarged, toshow various details of structure.

As in Fig. 3, the bottle 2 is shown with the dispensing device mountedthereon to act as a closure for the bottle, and this is accomplished byproviding the dispensing device, which is preferably made up of amoulded phenolic condensation compound, with a thin, upstanding bottleneck engaging annulus 8, Fig. 4, said annulus being sufficientlyflexible to be firmly engageable into the opening of the bottle neck soas to be proof against accidental displacement therefrom.

As shown in Figs. 4 and 5, the body I of the dispensing closure, iscircular in plan outline, and is sufliciently thick to permit of theprovision of an ink well bore 5 therein, and a parallel ink entry boreI2 therein, which is formed, in part, by the said annulus 8. Acommunicating bore I, joins the entry bore l2 to the ink well bore 5, sothat ink may flow from bore I2 to spaced bore 5.

The ink well bore 5 is provided with a frictionally mounted rotatableclosure valve, Figs. 1,

1936, Serial No. 93,154.

2 and 3, the same comprising a thin walled cylindrical body portion 6,having a flanged portion 4, the valve being open at the flanged portiononly, and being provided with a valve opening 9 in its cylindrical wall,Fig. 6. ing when the valve is fitted into the ink well bore 5, as inFigs. 3 and 1, may be rotated therein to either close the ink supplyductl, as in Fig. 3, to close the device against evaporation andspillingof the ink, or to open the valve interior as an 10 ink well, tothe duct 1, which is in communication with the bottle contents.

As viewed in Fig. 3, the device is intended to be a stopper forthebottle and may be sold therewith as a substitute for the usual cork.

When the bottle and'device are reversed as in Figs. 1 and 2, the devicethen becomes an ink well and ink dispensing means, by rotating the valvemember so that its side aperture 9 registers with the duct 1, andthereby permits ink to flow into the valve body 6, from which the inkbecomes accessible for use, by reason of the valve and ink well portionbeing oiTset from the reservoir bottle as fully shown in Figs. 1 and 2.

The stopper at its open end is provided with a wiper and baffle disc II,this being shown in Figs. 6 to 8 inclusive, this, and the valve, beingmade of the same material as the main body of the device, the bafilebeing inclined inwardly of the valveand terminating in a reentrantcentral bore l2. If the device and bottle are accidently upset from thedispensing position of Fig. 1, or turned completely over, as in Fig. 8,the excess ink will tend to flow into the chamber A, Fig. 8, and thus,to a large extent, is prevented from a free discharge from the device. Asmall capillary air vent I5, Fig. '7, is provided in the bafile, so thatafter an upset, upon the device being righted, air may enter intochamber A and release the ink therein.

The battle Il, may be applied to the valve by any suitable means, andmay be, as indicated in Fig. 8, moulded into the valve flange by itsouter rim I6.

The body I of the device, has a stop pin I3, Figs. 1 and 5, locatedadjacent the edge of the inkwell bore 5, to act as a stop for therotative valve, and the flange 4 thereof has a stop groove I4, Figs. 1and 7, the limits of said groove, which is located on the under edge ofthe flange, forming means to register the valve port 9 with the duct I,as in Fig. 1, and to prevent turning the valve too far when closing thesame.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the present device provides asealedstopper, which This latter open- 5 may act as a closure to thebottle, and which when reversed with the bottle, to form a supporttherefor, becomes a closable inkwell, which may be opened to admit asupply of ink thereto, from the reservoir bottle, as required.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

1. In combination, a circular base of phenolic condensation compoundhaving therein a diametric duct, an upstanding cylindrical well bore atone end of the duct, and an entry bore at the other end surrounded by athin flexible upstanding cylindrical wall integral with the base; aninverted bottle having its neck receiving said wall in a liquid-tightmanner and holding the bottle firmly upright; a thin-walled cylindricalink Well frictionally engaging liquid-tight the wall of said well bore,and having a lateral aperture adapted, when the Well is turned, to moveinto or out of register with the duct; said well being provided with aninteriorly upwardly flared upper flanged portion engaging on the top ofthe base and provided portion above the flare with an annular grooveopening toward the well axis; and a downwardly concavo-convexed baffledisk fitted in said groove and having a central opening allowing freepassage of a pen and forming a lower lip above the ink level; thevertical projection of the center of gravity of said bottle, and of thebottle and base as a whole, being well 7 within and remote from theperimeter of the base when the bottle is inverted, the center of gravityof the bottle and. base, when the base is inverted and the bottleupright and resting on its bottom, being near the axis of the bottle,whereby the bottle and base are held steadily when either is uppermost,the upstanding flexible wall furnishing a holding means withoutadditional expense; said baflle being free of contact with ink when inuse, whereby when the ink is run from the well into .the bottle and saidaperture closed, and the bottle is set upon its bottom with the base,baille and well inverted, the friction of the stopper will hold it inplace and said baffie will prevent ink from dripping or spilling.

2. In a combination as in claim 1, a pin projecting from the top face ofsaid base; said flanged portion having an arcuate slot receiving saidpin and of a length to stop said well with the aperture in registeringand non-registering positions relative to the duct.

3. In a combination as in claim 1, the baflle being provided with amarginal capillary perforation communicating with the interior of saidenlarged portion.

ERNEST SCHLUETER.

